Relation of Reason

Keyword: Relation of Reason


Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/03/2018
Quote from "On the Logic of Quantity"

Dual relations, – facts about pairs of subjects, – are of two types, first those which imply no more about their subjects that that they have certain qualities between which some comparison is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "That Categorical and Hypothetical Propositions are one in essence, with some connected matters"

By logical relations, I mean those in respect to which all pairs [of] objects in the universe are alike; by hemilogical relations those in respect to which there is in reference to each object in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

…what is true by virtue of a relation of reason is representative, that is, is of the nature of a sign.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle"

…a relation of reason subsists in virtue of two facts, one only of which would disappear on the annihilation of either of the relates. Such are all resemblances: for...

Manuscript | Posted 13/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Degrees of Degeneracy [R]. MS [R] 911

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 folded sheet.
A triple character has two degrees of degeneracy. Degeneracy of a dual character. Nondegenerate dual relation is a real...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-13; 7-12, with an alternative p. 8 of another draft.
The principal questions raised are these: Why mathematics always deals with a...